Let’s tackle long hours culture in UK film and tv together 🕰️ To start our Broken Turnaround week of action Bectu members were out today in various locations in London and Media City to say you can say no to Broken Turnaround. Read @variety@kjyossman for the latest on today’s walk. We are calling on the Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television (Pact) and the wider industry to:
- Enforce safe working hours and proper rest periods
- Guarantee regular, protected breaks
- Make overtime voluntary, not expected
- Apply premium penalty rates to minimise its use
- Commit to collective agreements that protect crew
Sign our end long hours culture petition we have launched as part of the weeks action via this post in our bio✍️
What a wonderful weekend celebrating the marriage of Max and Martina in beautiful Malta 🇲🇹 just the most joyful and fun day with my Maltese adopted family ❤️ @mariellavertex
Had the very best night at the Olivier awards last night with Jack Dent. It’s always a special night but this year the awards were celebrating 50 years of recognising brilliant theatre 🎭
Bectu welcomes the government’s commitment to place the BBC’s Charter on a permanent footing 📜
As part of this critical moment for the BBC’s future, Bectu members, both BBC staff and freelancers, took their concerns directly to the Secretary of State during a scheduled ministerial engagement last night alongside Head of Bectu Philippa Childs.
Members set out, first hand, how years of cuts, political interference and repeated funding squeezes have affected the workforce and shaped the union’s call for a stronger, more stable constitutional settlement for the BBC.
Recently we hosted a roundtable in Parliament to discuss what Bectu’s Big Survey highlights about the state of the creative industries 🎬
“We hope that this survey will form a baseline in which we can measure what progress has been made.” @philippachilds 🗣️
Bectu rep Sean O’Malley said on his experiences of working as a freelancer in outside broadcasting and live events: “Fear of reporting accidents, late payments and fear of standing up to bullying and harrasment are all too common.”
Liz Biggs a Bectu rep from our Unscripted branch commented: “We are used to it being feast and famine but the last two years it’s gone to about a 6 month working year.”
